Where would classic rock music be without the 1950s? That was the decade when the genre was forming, when it was just beginning to understand the power of what it could do and what it could be.

Sometimes a song’s rhythm and melody strike you in a way that you know you need to hear more. At times, a track is all about the music, the lilting instrumentation or the heavy beats. But other times, ...

The evening launched a book – An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre 1900-1950 – co-written by Sarah Whitfield, a (white) British academic, and Sean Mayes, a (black) New York-based ...